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Hepatitis C virus NS2 protein serves as a scaffold for virus assembly by interacting with both structural and nonstructural proteins.
Journal of virology - 1 Jan 2011
Ma Yinghong, Anantpadma Manu, Timpe Jennifer M, Shanmugam Saravanabalaji, Singh Sher M, Lemon Stanley M, Yi Minkyung
Abstract excerpt
Many aspects of the assembly of hepatitis C virus (HCV) remain incompletely understood. To characterize the role of NS2 in the production of infectious virus, we determined NS2 interaction partners among other HCV proteins during productive infection. Pulldown assays showed that NS2 forms complexes with both structural and nonstructural proteins, including E1, E2, p7, NS3, and NS5A. Confocal microscopy also...
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